NOUN CLAUSE Tugas 4

NOUN CLAUSE

A. Definition of noun clause

            A noun is a person, place or thing. A Noun-Clause is a group of words which contains a Subject and a Predicate of its own and does the work of a noun.

            Noun clauses perform the same functions in sentences: A noun clause can be a subject of a verb, object of a verb, subject complement, object of a preposition, adjective complement. Here are the examples:

1.      A noun clause can be a subject of a verb:

What Billy did shocked his friends.

2.      A noun clause can be an object of a verb:

Billy’s friends didn’t know that he couldn’t swim.

3.      A noun clause can be a subject complement:

Billy’s mistake was that he refused to take lessons.

4.      A noun clause can be an object of a preposition:

Mary is not responsible for what Billy did.

5.      A noun clause (but not a noun) can be an adjective complement:

Everybody is sad that Billy drowned.

B. Types of Noun clause

There are four common types of noun clause, those are:

1.      Question word order

            Statement word order is always used in a noun clause, even if the main clause is a question. To change the question into statement is by arranging its word roder.

Example:

      Do you know what time is it? (question word order: is it)  à not correct

Do you know what time it is? (Statement word order: it is) à correct

      Everybody wondered where did Bobby go? (question word order: did Bobby go) à not correct

Everybody wondered where Bobby went? (statement word order: Bobby went) à correct

2.      Yes-No question

            To change yes-no question into a noun clause is by using word ‘if’ or ‘whether’,

Example:

      John wonders – Does Jane know how to cook? à yes-no question

John wonders if Jane knows how to cook? à noun clause of yes-no question

      The teacher must determine – Are their students ready to study?

The teacher must determine if/ whether their students are ready to study?

3.      That question

            That question or ‘That’ clause is a noun clause which is started by word ‘that’.

Examples:

      I believe that everything happens for a reason

      I know that the students studied their assignment

      I know that Billy made a mistake

To change a statement to a noun clause use that:

I know + Billy made a mistake =

I know that Billy made a mistake.

            ‘that’clause cannot be omitted when it is as a first word in a sentence.

Example:

      That Bobby jumped off the pier surprised everyone

      That she should forget me so quickly was rather a shock.

4.      To Infinitive clause

            To Infinitive clause is a type of noun clause whose verb is in the infinitive form, using ‘to’ infinitive.

Examples:

      Jim hates to wash his uncle’s car

      Rosie loves to plan parties

      Jill expected Marry to stay at home all day.

      To know all is to forgive all.

      To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society